CDIAC
Mission
- to acquire, compile, quality-assure, document, archive, and distribute information on greenhouse gases and climate change in support of the Information and Integration component of the US Department of Energy’s Global Change Research Program
Special emphasis
- quality assurance, documentation, and derived, integrated products
User community
- many thousands of researchers, policy makers, educators, students, and corporate officials around the world
World Data Center-A for Atmospheric Trace Gases
- since 1992, a component of the World Data Center System of the International Council of Scientific Unions